The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

HENRY o. AIKEN has been elected as
principal of the Rutland high school, to sue
coed Mr.. Atwood
REV. e. A. SoUIER, lately of Winooski,
has accepted a call to the pastorate of
church in Decatur, Ala.
JAMES RILEY of West Rutland for steal
ing suit of clothes, gets year at hard
labor in the state prison.
THE grand total of cost of the new build
ings erected in Burlington this season
amounts to nearly S270,0O0.
LANDLORD KNowLToN, proprietor of the
American House, Brattleboro, was fined
$3.50 on Monday for selling liquor.
THESE postmasters have been commits
stoned: Gilman B. Brown, South Wards
boro Susan A. Hill, South Gilmore.
AT special meeting the Bennington vii
lage corporation voted nearly unanimously
to light the streets with electric lights.
REV. T. L. DRURY, editor of the Rutland
Teiegrdm, has won his suit against the
Church of Christ in that town for salary due
GEORGE SHERMAN, MA, graduate of
Amherst College, class of 1879, has been en-
gagged as principal of Black River Academy
at Ludlow.
II. L. DOYLE, mail agent on the night
train between Richford and Springfield, has
resigned, and Patrick J. Farrell of Newport
takes his place
The new depot at West Swanton is now
complete and will be appreciated by people
who find it convenient to take and leave
trains at that point.
A BRILLIANT game of ball was played at
Rutland Saturday between the Rutland and
st. Adams clubs, 1t was won by the former
by score of six to three.
A BARN belonging to o. B. johnson of st.
Adams was burned on Saturday night and
one horse persisted in the flames. The loss
is estimated at about $3.50.
THE annual Joint exhibition of the YER
mont State Agricultural Society and the
Champlain Valley Association will be held
at Burlington September 1916.
THE editor of the Bethel Courier denies
that his paper has suspended publication,
and he ought to know. The story originated
with the Burlington independent.
WILLIAM DEvINo of Winooski has brought
suit against the Central Vermont Railroad
Company for $40, 900 for the loss of his wife
in the Hartford railroad disaster last winter.
A RIcHFoRD dispatch says: GA heavy
shower Monday night caused much damage.
The railroad bridge at Sutton, Quebec, was
carried off. The passengers are carried by
for the present"
BARNUM's circus is required to pay a Ii
cense of 1000 before it can exhibit in any
town in the state, while the selectmen of
each town require the proprietors to pay a
license fee of $50.
AMONG the patents granted during the
past week are the following to Vermonters:
Dewey X. Hickok, Morrisville, Washing
machine; Dean ID. Morgan, johnson, pillow
or scraper for making roads.
HENRY BARBER was arrested at Castleton
charged with assault with intent to kill. A
revolver and razor were found upon his per-
SON. He is a hard character, having been
once before convicted of crime.
Turn ri; hnua hall Il
feated by the Rutlands on Monday, five to
four. Another game was played by the
same clubs on Tuesday, in which the Rut-
lands were victorious by a score of nine to
eight.
THE announcements made that ex-Mayor
Woodburys half interest in the Burlington
Clipper has been purchased by syndicate
of Burlington gentlemen and that stock
company is to be formed to publish it. Mr..
j. e. Harris will continue as editor.
LIEUTENANT e. H. CATLIN, Second Ar
tillery, United States army, and professor
of military tactics at Norwich University
has been detailed by the war department to
inspect and report upon the efficiency of the
National Guard of Vermont while in camp
at Bennington in August.
The officers of the Barlow Grays of St.
Adams have returned to the governor their
commissions, the company having decided
to disband. Major NJ. ID. Green is to act as
post adjutant at the Bennington muster,
Major William Smith as post quartermaster
and Major j. G. Rutherford as post surgeon
THE town hall at Bellows Falls, which is
fast approaching completion, is fine brick
structure with brown stone trimmings Ii
has stores and library rooms on the first floor
and a hall above with a seating capacity OF
LOO. The stage is ample and will be fur
nlshed with drop curtains, scenery, ante
rooms, etc. The town issued bonds to the
amount of $4,000 to build it.
THE creamery men generally in the
county paid seventy cents per hundred for
milk during the month of June, and the
patrons appear to be well satisfied with the
price, as they certainly have reason to be.
Last year the price went as low as sixty
cents per hundred pounds, or fifteen cents
pound for the butter as against seventeen
and one-half cents now.-MesSenJer.
CAPTAIN CHARLES A. CURTIS, on the re.
tired list of United States army officers
who has relatives and friends in st. Johns
bury, fell while getting off a railroad train
at Madison, Wis, the 18th of June, so as tC
break his leg. Captain Curtis was for years
commandant at Norwich University and is
now in military school at Gainesville, Fla
He lost one leg in the service, and breaking
the other one was great misfortune.
A ROMANCE in real life has occurred il
the town of Underhill. A Frenchman il
an adjoining town upon his death-bed sen
for young woman, whom he had called
his daughter, and confessed that she was
not in reality bound to him by any tie of re
lationship. He further stated that she wa
stolen from her parents when quite young
that her surviving relatives were well-to-dC
American people, and gave substantial evi
dence to prove his assertions. The lad,
was at once received and acknowledged b,
her newly-found relatives and a just shar,
of inheritance was made over to here.
WE paid a brief visit to the Soldiers
Home at Bennington, recently, and foun'
Superintendent Cotiey at work in the hay
field with several of the boys" who seen
disposed to take hold and carry on the farm
which is quite extensive. Nearly a thou
sand dollars worth of hay will be cut, an
perhaps six hundred bushels of potatoes, a
well as other crops, will be harvested. Thi
will go long ways towards defraying tn
expenses of the home The veterans seen
to be entirely contented there, as the
ought to be, having such comfortable qual
tiers and surrounded by beautiful grounds
with fine grove and a fountain that send
water into the air one hundred ninety-fv
feet near by. They are required to do littl
work except as they volunteer to do it, an,
evidently think great deal of Mr.. and Mr.
Coffey. We learned that several thousan
dollars will be saved from the appropriation
which can be put into a new building whiC
will be needed to accommodate those WI
will be entitled to enter the home. Vernon
may be satisfied that the money voted ht
been and will be well Xpended-Mdnche
ter Journal
In General.
CHOLERA is spreading in Sicily.